“Germany’s highest court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in mixed sex swimming classes at school, rejecting a complaint filed by an 11-year-old girl who said that even wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit violates strict Islamic dress codes….According to the constitutional authorities, the girl in Frankfurt am Main could not prove that a burkini does not comply with Islamic law. The lower courts had found earlier that there are ‘no binding rules in Islam’ that define appropriate clothing.”

So apparently if there had been “binding rules in Islam” regarding what Muslim girls could wear while swimming, she would have been excused. Yet just days ago Merkel said that German law “takes precedence” over Sharia. Now we see which legal code actually takes precedence over the other.

“‘No binding rules in Islam’: Muslim girls must take part in swimming lessons, German court rules,” RT, December 8, 2016:

Germany’s highest court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in mixed sex swimming classes at school, rejecting a complaint filed by an 11-year-old girl who said that even wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit violates strict Islamic dress codes.

The pupil of Moroccan descent refused to attend swimming lessons with boys, and was given an unsatisfactory mark as a result, AFP reported.

The girl had argued before lower courts that swimming in a burkini revealed the shape of her body, and that the sight of her fellow pupils in swimwear made her uncomfortable, according to n-tv.

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe dismissed the girl’s appeal that had sought an excusal from the classes, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported.

According to the constitutional authorities, the girl in Frankfurt am Main could not prove that a burkini does not comply with Islamic law.

The lower courts had found earlier that there are “no binding rules in Islam” that define appropriate clothing….

Stressing that German law “takes precedence” over Islam’s Sharia code, on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed a ban on full-face Muslim veils in Germany, telling delegates at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) congress that they should be banned “wherever it is legally possible.”

Comments

It would be better just to get rid of these barbaric UN-civilized misfits they do not fit in to any civilized society & should be returned to the dunes they are not mentally capable of understanding what is right or wrong due to inbreeding

Well said. I am fed up with their demands that we set our values aside and adopt their’s. Overal, their culture offends me but our useful idiot leaders only allow them to critisise other religions and cultures without comment. Damn them and their misplaced political correctness!

Only unintelligent people would follow a religion which is so obviously manufactured in the 7th century and so clearly plagiarised from an established religion ie. Judaism. Mohammad,
an uneducated camel driver, who worked for a woman boss no less, could not have invented such a religion and it certainly was not delivered to him from on high. So he borrowed most of it and tweaked it to make himself look like a great ‘prophet’
BTW not wishing to offend women, I mean he was not smart enough to set up in business for himself. I mean how hard can it be to set up a camel based transport business?

You are all right. They have to right to live in western countries. I was born in Germany and our culture is 7 or 800 years old (except for the time Hitler ruined it that SOB). And the Muslims think that We should give in the Sharia law? There is no verse in the Quaran that says girls have to wear headscarves or burkas It just says they must dress modestly like the Orthodox Jews. The Muslim men have hijacked the book to their power trip and control over women. They should not be allowed in ANY western country because their goal is to take over the whole world. Kick them out of the USA and Europe and send them back to the desert where they belong. And yes they are inbred.

Happens here on Oz, they voluntarily go into the surf dressed in their medieval robes, a wave catches them, they are pushed over and dragged out into deeper water where they are dragged down and those water-logged robes make it almost impossible to effect a rescue.

This is becoming ridiculous! Obviously she did not pay for the court case. They are simply wasting our time and money and trying to push their childish agenda. If they don’t like it then they can go back to their own countries. Look at what happens if you have a beer in Saudi Arabia. And we are playing their game. We in the west are being forced to accept their farcical demands. In the west we accept certain rules about behaviour. When we are young many things are embarrassing but we get on with it; we don’t complain.

When I was a very young boy I went to swim at the YMCA. We had to take a shower before entering the all male pool, and if my memory serves me, we swam naked. A burka can bring unwanted germs into a pool specially if it was worn in the street.

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